Gloriously sick and twisted.
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11/24/09
Battle Royale (2000)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:19
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.3/10
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Chiaki Kuriyama
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Reviews for Battle Royale
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04/29/09
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10/18/08
A disturbing film to say the least, and definitely one that could never have been made in the United States.
06/17/08
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05/20/08
Top CriticA modern classic about the folly of violence.
07/23/07
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12/30/06
What it does have is plenty of splatter, noise and energy.
11/07/06
Os intertítulos e o excesso de flashbacks comprometem um pouco o ritmo do filme, mas, de modo geral, a ação é muito bem conduzida e os personagens, satisfatoriamente desenvolvidos.
05/26/06
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01/26/06
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12/06/05
Une oeuvre faisant l'objet d'un véritable culte que l'on imagine mal voir sortir d'un studio d'Hollywood.
11/25/05
Races along with the swift, brutal precision of a samurai sword cutting through cotton.
05/03/05
The basic storyline just isn't very good, and any attempt to say anything meaningful or moving is ham-fisted and obvious, which quite simply isn't good enough for a film as in-your-face as this.
08/12/03
Its content will earn it a following from as many witless viewers as it will thoughtful ones, but that's no reason to condemn it
06/30/03
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05/09/03
As twisted as it sounds, killing off 41 teens takes a great deal of creativity and an innate sense of pacing in order to avoid, well, cinematic boredom.
05/01/03
BATTLE ROYALE is a film that should not be easily ignored, and will not be easily forgotten...the faces of those kids are likely to linger long after the credits stop.
04/03/03
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03/10/03
'Battle Royale' is another deeply flawed addition to the deeply offensive phenomenon of 'reality TV'.
02/13/03
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